My Window

Hello, kind window, how are you today?

Oh, I’m fine; I don’t have much to say

I’m just going to sit here again, and watch through you

At all the others in this world who walk through

Outside sure looks scary, it’s a good thing I’m here

Oh wow..all that socialization..I’d be standing in fear

It’s a good thing I don’t have a life outside of this

I don’t want to feel the blistering heat, or the wind’s soothing kiss

I can see fine from here, thank you very much.

I don’t have to be out there within the distance of touch

The people are rude, moods dark, sky unclear

Hmm..I never noticed how bright the lights are in here

What’s that, window? You say it’s you that’s dirty?

Oh don’t be silly..I’m sure I cleaned you at two thirty.

Well, I don’t know, it may have been last week

However, I’m sure the world outside fits my description of bleak

Cruel and unjust and fairly uncertain too

Don’t taunt me, window, to this world I’m not new

I understand the outside �" just because I haven’t been there in a while

Doesn’t mean I haven’t noticed the weary glances and crooked smiles

The real world is just too daunting to face

And right here, it’s so cozy, and I feel I have a place

Of my own in this world full of crime and the corrupt

Not to mention the �" wait, window, don’t interrupt

What’s that you say? It’s not how I put it?

You say it’s just the dirt and the soot?

Okay fine, I admit, I have not cleaned you in forever

But my ties with this room �" I just don’t want them severed

I know that you’re saying it’s all about perspective

On the outside world and I should respect it

But believe you me, window, I’ve been out there once

And I’ve been cheated and hurt, and treated like a dunce

I do not, no matter what, want to get hurt again

So here I sit, watching their filthy sins

Oh the music that’s playing! It’s so soothing!

See, I can enjoy it, unlike the people outside moving

From place to dreary place in their expecting state

Ha! It’s so funny to watch them fulfill their fate

Of sorrow and pain and �" what? I’m being depressing?

Window, please be quiet, and watch who you’re addressing.

Second chances, you say? You want me to live my life?

For what, dear window? More fear and strife?

Oh you’re giving up on me, huh. Just like everyone else.

Hopeless case, they said also! I put my pain on the shelf.

Right next to my other belongings of outside

So you understand, in this house I will abide

Forever and ever never living without

Yep, just me and my window �" on the inside looking out.